Reading roundup: SPECTR and things
13. Jordan L. Hawk, Master of Ghouls (SPECTR #2)
14. Jordan L. Hawk, Reaper of Souls (SPECTR #3)
15. Jordan L. Hawk, Eater of Lives (SPECTR #4)
16. Jordan L. Hawk, Destroyer of Worlds (SPECTR #5) -- sooo, yeah, I kind of mainlined most of the first series of SPECTR, even though I thought I was going to be reading other things. There's actually a ( Read more... )
14. Jordan L. Hawk, Reaper of Souls (SPECTR #3)
15. Jordan L. Hawk, Eater of Lives (SPECTR #4)
16. Jordan L. Hawk, Destroyer of Worlds (SPECTR #5) -- sooo, yeah, I kind of mainlined most of the first series of SPECTR, even though I thought I was going to be reading other things. There's actually a ( Read more... )
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If you want to knock off "set in Canada" I highly recommend EK Johnston's The Story of Owen, which is YA Fantasy.
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They do! :D I think I'll probably count the third one (which I'm just starting) towards that, since I'm trying to count one book per square. Otherwise I could've knocked off about 6-7 squares with Natural History of Dragons alone :)
Thanks you for the Canadian setting rec! I didn't know of anything offhand for that one, so that's very helpful! Having googled it, it sounds very much the kind of thing I like, too.
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It's definitely an interesting idea. I'm hoping it's expanded on in series 2.
Gray...is definitely my favorite of the main threesome, can you tell? :P)
Same here. I honestly wasn't expecting that to happen in the first book, book and a half, maybe. But he's actually kind of, well, sweet. (Though every time I think that I also go 'but...but...the ridiculous amount of power, the blood drinking, the whole predator thing, and [spoilers]'.)
It's a romance setup, so of course there's the requisite misunderstanding between the couple, but I thought they were actually quite reasonable, for once
Caleb, John, and Gray are actually rather good about talking things through. Mocker of Ravens has one instance that feels like conflict chucked in for conflict but other than that the series is pretty decent about it.
there's a lot less of this teenage-type angst that Whyborne bringsDear lord, yes. Whyborne might ( ... )
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Mocker of Ravens has one instance that feels like conflict chucked in for conflict but other than that the series is pretty decent about it.
That's too bad about Mocker of Ravens, but on the whole, yeah, I agree. They are pretty good at talking through things, and acknowledging their biases/motivations when called on them by the other person. I like it!
Whyborne might be - what, twenty seven? twenty eight? - at the beginning of the series but emotionally he's definitely not operating on that level. Which makes sense for the character but gets grating after a bit.Twenty eight, as I recall, when the series ( ... )
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I think it goes back to the what Caleb said in the first book about Gray not really getting why humans refer to the past, how he lives only in the moment.
Yeah, the present tense makes great sense for Gray, given that, and the jarringness of the return to the other characters is actually an interesting side-effect. But it still gives me pause every time, so feels like a bit of stunt-writing rather than organic...
It showed an adjustment John had to make with his new partner, but without being super dramatic about it. (The couch doesn't count because it's obviously there to be the Sex Couch.)Haha, yes, I don't count the couch, either, for that very reason. But I do find it very nice, and kind of... soothing? to see these little adjustments, John learning to cook vegetarian, Caleb putting on a dress shirt as a favor to him -- they're very mundane, plain old grown-up touches, and I guess that's actually a more effective marker of a serious relationship for me than the "I promise to love you ( ... )
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He is! That's a really good comparison.
And it would be unrealistic to expect him to just leapfrog to full emotional maturity in the space of a year. But, gahh, reading about it gets old. As does Whyborne's "but I'm so ugly, how could anyone want me :(((" thing.
Yes, but TBH I almost gave up on the series after Threshold it bothered me so much. Especially the "obviously Griffin was cheating on me!" bit that was the conflict in the middle of the book. That just came out of nowhere: at that point I don't think Whyborne knows much about Griffin's sexual/romantic history (beyond getting thrown out of his hometown) so it just doesn't seem to have any basis.
I feel like 'negotiating consent' in fiction is a fine line [...] Here it feels very natural, partly probably because they do get it wrong sometimes/misunderstand each other's cues, like above, but also because it's done in an in-character wayIt doesn't help ( ... )
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